# Staff Optical Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

200 staff optical engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA. Top employers: OpenAI, Astranis, Anthropic, and 5 more. Salaries from $30K–$500K.

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**Analytical Systems Specialist / Applications Chemist** at Mariana Minerals
San Francisco HQ | FULL_TIME | USD 85K–100K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Training Infrastructure)** at Perplexity
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 220K–405K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)** at Perplexity
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 220K–405K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)** at Perplexity
San Francisco | INTERN | USD 220K–405K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff** at Stoa
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote | FULL_TIME | USD 120K–300K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)** at Perplexity
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 220K–405K/yr
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**(Staff / Senior Staff) AI Infra Engineer, Inference Infrastructure** at Together AI
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 250K–320K/yr
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**Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer** at Harvey AI
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 231K–340K/yr
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**Staff Software Engineer, IAM Control Plane** at Stripe
San Francisco | FULL_TIME
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**Staff Generalist Engineer** at Greptile
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 250K–300K/yr
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**Staff Technical Product Manager, Evals** at Hercules
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 200K–350K/yr
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**Chief of Staff, GTM** at Greptile
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 195K–250K/yr
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**Member of Data Staff (Data Acceleration)** at Perplexity
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 175K–330K/yr
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**Staff Software Engineer, Finance Engineering** at Anthropic
San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | FULL_TIME | USD 320K–405K/yr
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**Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform** at Harvey AI
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 231K–325K/yr
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